above: Margaret Morrison's Fisher Price People, 2010, oil on canvas, 48" x 48" From Wax Lips and Gummy Bears to Pez and Pull-toys, critically acclaimed painter Margaret Morrison captures nostalgia on canvas with her photo realistic oil paintings of candy and toys from our childhood. Trojan Horse: Menace (telephone pull toy): Sweet Nothings (Mickey and Minnie Pez): Marbles: Ring Pops: Wax Lips: Super Bubble gum: Gummy Bears: Gummy Worms: Gummy Centipedes: Hershey's Chocolate Kiss: Margaret Morrison: The talented artist is a professor at the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art and also paints many other subjects including figurative work as in her Centricity series, flowers and foods. She has been represented by the Woodward Gallery for the past 17 years.
As more children emerge from the pandemic grappling with mental health issues, their parents are seeking ways for them to build emotional resilience. And toy companies are paying close attention. While still in its early phase, a growing number of toy marketers are embracing MESH — or mental, emotional and social health — as a designation for toys that teach kids skills like how to adjust to new challenges, resolve conflict, advocate for themselves, or solve problems. The plan is to certify MESH toys by mid-2024 the same way the Toy Association did for STEAM toys, which emphasize science, tech, engineering, arts, and math. But some experts say toy companies need to walk a fine line between helping children and not preying on parents' anxiety.
A poop-noddy is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as: Sexual intercourse (rare) I don't know about you, dear reader, but I'm planning never to have sex again, it's pure poop-noddies from here on in. However, the origin of the word is rather curious. The OED refers you to noddypoop and noddypoop is simply a synonym for noddypoll. Now a noddy is a fool and a poll is a head. That's why you have poll tax (a tax per head) poleaxe (an axe used for chopping heads) and tadpole (toad-head). So what has any of this got to do with sex? Well, there's a sort of clue in Shakespeare's Pericles. There's a scene where two people who run a brothel are discussing how drab and diseased their prostitutes are: Pandar: Thou sayest true; they're too unwholesome, o' conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that lay with the little baggage. BOULT: Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast-meat for worms. But I'll go search the market. You've definitely got a sexual context here, but poop seems to mean gave him syphilis, rather than sex. So I'm going to take a guess that poop-noddy isn't sex exactly, that it is, in fact, the act of cuckolding somebody. So if you have sex with somebody's wife you are pooping her noddy of a husband. I could be wrong though. It could be to do with poop decks, which are owned by bad DJs. Supply your own caption. P.S. Why do elephants have big ears? Because Noddy won't pay the ransom.
I love these illustrations on the covers of Twinkle comic from the 70s. Twinkle 'the picture paper especially for little girls' was a popular British comic, published from 27 January 1968 to 1999. It was aimed at young girls and came out weekly, supplemented each year with a Summer Special and a hardcover Annual. The comics were introduced by Twinkle herself and featured comic strips, dress-up dolls, a Twinkle Club letters page, and often puzzles. You can see more of these charming illustrations on flickr.
Fun vintage toy. perfect for grandma’s house- so much fun watching your baby increase their hand eye coordination
From Good & Plenty and Fizzies to Chick-O-Stick and Zero Bars, here are all of your sweet candy memories of the 1960s.
Here's a roundup of toys of the 1950's -the most popular playthings, that are still going strong today!
Childhood nostalgia
Baby Glory and Baby Moondancer
The best toys are the ones you had as a kid, and for me, that was '80s toys! Learn how I fell in love with 80's toys again and had a blast doing so, and start up a collection of your own.
Sweet 80s and 90s Nostalgia to Rekindle Forgotten Memories - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Before graduating to ribbon barrettes in the 80s, girls loved to get a fresh set of Goody's Snap-Tight barrettes. Colors for every outfit!
